Analysis of The Rising Moon
Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney 1791 ( Norwich) – 1865
Beneath the soft glance of the slow-rising moon,
Where the landscape was silent I rov'd,
While pleasures departed by memory were shewn,
And I thought of the friends I had lov'd.
The mild breeze of eve through the branches that sigh'd,
Let fall its pure dews on my cheek,
And my heart, as it quicken'd its rapturous tide,
Felt more than my language could speak.
"I give, Holy Father, my being to thee!
Oh, deign to accept of the boon;
Most humbly I render this sacrifice free,
As I gaze on the fair, rising moon.
Protect me from folly, preserve me from change,
From darkness, and errors, and cares;
And while thro' this field of temptation I range,
Oh, break thou its charms and its snares.
And soon may I reach that blest mansion afar,
Where the toils of this journey are o'er;
Where the pale rising moon, and the mild evening star
Shall shed their weak lustre no more.
Scheme | ABAB BCBC DADA EFEF GXGX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01011101101 10111011 110010110001 011101111 01111101011 11111111 011111011001 11111011 11101011011 11101101 1101101101 111101101 01111001111 11001001 01111101011 11111011 01111111001 1011110110 101101001101 11111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 930 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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